Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-06

SECRETARY WHITNEY is ready to receive
applications for superintendent of the
new gun factory at the Washington revy
yard.
THE EAST. 0
JACOB MURTH was smothered at his home
In Jersey City, n. j., the other morning. He
fell while drunk on his face, and his nostrils
and mouth were pressed so tightly against
the floor that he was unable to breathe.
JOHN KANE, aged four years, whose pa
rents reside at sc Carroll Street, Brooklyn,
N. Y, took bottle of whisky from the
table unnoticed the other night and drank
a large quantity of the contents. He be-
came unconscious and totally parSlyzed in
his limbs and died soon after.
AFTER two hours conference with a
committee of his employees, President
Lewis, of the Brooklyn On. W Staeet Car
Company, agreed to recognize the -Empire
Protective Association. This was the bone
of contention, and all fears of another tie
up are now diSpelled.
WILLIAM K SoUTTER has been arrested in
New York ones charge of grand larceny.
Soutter was head of the banking and brok-
erage house of Soutter & CoSwhich failed
September 81, 1885.
The Temple Theater, Philadelphia was
totally destroyed by fire on the 27th Four
firemen were buried by falling walls, three
Of whom persisted. Loss amounted to about
$SOO,OO0
DANIEL 2. BEATTY, ex-maycg of Wishing
ton, N. j., was arrested recently charged
with improper and illegal use of the msils.
He was at one time one of the most extern
siye manufacturers of organs and pianos 81
the country His factory wac burned in
1884 an9 his failure followed Tae COM
plant WIS preferred by woman who sent
him money for an organ but did not get t.
THE lockGp in the village of Antwerp,
Jefferson County, N. Y, was burned the
other night and John Mcdonald, 3Drisoner,
persisted in the flames.
THE schedule in the assignment of the
firm OF F. n. Foster q Co., upholsterera
New Y ork, show liabilities of $751; con-
tingent, SSS,Sf4; nospinal assets, GD74, 126,
and actual assets, 1922, 1856.
WILLIAM q. HEARD, of Sandwich, N.
H, has been appointed nS5ional bank
examiner for the States O& Maine Gnd NeW
Hampshire.
P. HENRY DRUGo, grams sachem Of TSsn-
many Hall, has resigned. County Clerk
James A. Flack was elected 70 succeed
him.
Mr.. PowpERLY in a resent letter str6agfy
denounced the socialists, and told them that
men who for 1854 days in the year advocate
the use of the dirk and bullet and who on
the 365th day walk up to the polls and vote
for the continuance of the system sBhich
they denounce could not t6 encouraged by
the Knights of babor.
THE New York World states on the very
best Of authority that Rev. DR.. McGlynn is
under indefinite suspension, both as rector
and priest.
THE Peter Cooper Monument CommiEee
has authorized the executive committee to
arrange for the casting and erection. The
monument win be cast in bronze in this
country and will be the largest ON Mannat-
tam island 1t will cost between S35, 900 and
$40 600.
plies, New York, has assigned. His prefer
ences amounted to $205, 700.
The American Society of Naturalists be-
gan its fifth annual meeting in Philadelphia
on the 2Sth. A paper was read by tho
President, G.. K. Gilbert, of the United
States Coast Survey. 1t was devoted to q
consideration of the methods for finding the
equations for determining rain and thunderf
storms, etc. Prof. F. b. Wilson, professorl
of biology at Bryn Mawr, addressed the 500
ciety upon the subject of mOlds and their
relation to bacteria.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY Posi- made motion
before Judge Barrett at New York recently
to RESTRAIN the Globe Mut3Sal Benefit Assoc
tlon, an insurance cooperative society,
from insuring the lives of infants in arms
arguing that they could not become mem
bers of the association and take part in the
elections and other business connected with
it, as provided by the statute. The court
, gave counsel a week TO fle briefs.
HARVARD COLLEGE receives some $500, 900
from the will of John Q. A. Williams. The
estate is left in trust, and when the residue
shall have reached 800, 900 it is to be given
to the president and fellows of Harvard
College. The sum of 100000 is to be set
apart and known as the Abraham Williams
fund, in memory of the testator's father
and grandfather, the latter being member
of the class of TIA
THE aRaual statement of the savings
banks of Massachusetts is a gratifying ex-
hibit. The number of open accounts is
SOC, OS9, an increase Of n ,252, and the amount
of deposits is s291, 1880, an incsease of
&16 1875, ASS
THE Merchants Association gave great
banquet at Boston on the asss.h, in which sew
eral prominent statesmeR discoursed on
leading national issues.
CHARLES KING's glove-leather establish
ment, Johnstown, N Y, burned the other
night. Loss, $4,000.
BY the annual report of the Boston fire
department, recently issued, it appears that
thare are in that city IS, i37 dwelling houses,
81 hotels, 1850 stores and 5,057 other build
jngs, MaEued for taxable purposes at ses2,-
Go5.QDa.